Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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Don't imitate the fly before you have wings. ~French Proverb
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Who does not thank for little, will not thank for much. ~Estonian Proverb
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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I do get a lot of mail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez. ~Erik Estrada
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life. ~Tim Blake Nelson
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. ~Alistair Cooke
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In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained by relations of pure causality, the construction of a machine can be understood neither without purpose nor without man. A machine is made by man and for man, with a view toward certain ends to be obtained, in the form of effects to be produced, a mechanical model of any phenomena is explanatory only so long as we take machines as already granted. ~Georges Canguilhem
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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A hen is heavy when carried far. ~Irish Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste. ~Rick Danko
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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After all the evidence is in, after you've run all the facts by everything you know, and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith. ~Christopher Moore
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment. ~Jim Jeffords
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Don't give advice unless you're asked. ~Amy Alcott
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